This is thinking in public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about

frontline theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them.

I'm Albert Moller, your host and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

in Louisville, Kentucky.

Myron Magnet is editor-at-large of City Journal, an influential urban Policy magazine based in New York City.

He previously served as the magazine's editor.

He's had an impressive career writing about topics ranging from American social policy,

economics, and corporate management Management to intellectual history, literature, and architecture.

In 2008, President George W Bush awarded Myron Magnet the National Humanities Medal for what the President called,

quote, scholarship and visionary influence in renewing our national culture of compassion, end quote.

He's the author of many books.

He's a graduate of both Columbia University and the University of Cambridge.

He holds his PhD from Columbia.

Amongst his many books is the book The Dream and The Nightmare,

the 60s Legacy to the Under underclass which became one of the most

important books in American public policy in the current generation.

I enjoyed a previous thinking in public with Dr. Magnet on his book The Founders at Home, The Building of America 1735 to 1817.

Today we get to talk about his newest book,

Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution.

And so to Dr. Myron Magnet and our listeners, welcome to thinking in public.

Dr. Magnet, as I look at your most recent book, Clarence Thomas in the Lost Constitution,

I have to tell you I was a little bit surprised

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